Although every immigrant’s tale is remarkable, that of Indians coming to the United States over the past 50 years is unique on several fronts.
Demographically, Indians represent the current largest source of new immigrants to America, surpassing even Mexicans or Chinese.
Sociologically, they are by far the best educated group in the country — roughly three times more India-born residents have college degrees than
the general population.

But the most striking distinction may be their economic status: Indian-American households have the single highest income level of any group in the
country — more than twice as high as the general US population.

Nigerian immigrants have the highest levels of education in this city and the nation, surpassing whites and Asians, according to Census data
bolstered by an analysis of 13 annual Houston-area surveys conducted by Rice University.

(Houston Chronicle, January 12, 2018)

Nigerian immigrants are by far the largest immigrant group from African countries. How about some others?

Within the foreign-born population from Africa, educational attainment varied by place of birth. For example, 64% of Egyptian-born individuals
were graduates as were 61% from Nigeria, 57% from South Africa, 47% from Kenya and 35% from Ghana. These were the countries with the highest
proportion of Africans with bachelor’s and higher degrees.

The whole idea that our immigration system is broken and that countries "give us their worst people … really the worst of the worst" is utter bull#.
Here's a fun fact:

Forty percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded or co-founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants. Watching Ella, Chris and
Xaviera, I’d bet good money that they will join those ranks of these world-class leaders. But the question I find myself asking as I leave their
school: Who are the young women the Trump administration is currently keeping out?

Trump isn't looking at statistics to determine his immigration policy so you tell me what he's relying on. Instead, he's making stupid blanket
statements about immigrants from "#hole countries."

It wouldn't really have been much better if Trump had said "countries that are poor" — but the fact is that he didn't say that. He said "#hole
countries" (or if you're buying the other defense, "#house" though that's really irrelevant) and then gave examples of what he considers "#hole
countries" and unsurprisingly, when he thinks "#hole" he seems to think Africa, Central America and the Caribbean. You know, places that aren't
predominately white. Places that aren't churning out models for rich douche bags to marry.

If trumps comments showed bigotry toward people from those countries, then surely you will admit all those that used teabagger shows bigotry to
the people that was directed to.

So if Trump just comes out of his face and says, "n---er n---er n---er!" are you going to be posting this false equivalence? I mean, what's the
threshold here? Apples and oranges. First off, calling Tea Partiers "teabaggers" is on par with right-wingers calling people from the Left
"libtards."

Do you think that somebody calling me a "libtard" is the same thing as calling a Chinese person "chink?" I don't. Why? Because one is deriding a group
for their political views and the other is attacking them for who they fundamentally are.

So no. I do not agree that they are the same thing. Furthermore, this isn't just Trump flapping his lips offensively. Trump is the President of the
United States and this crap in the context of setting policy for the United States of America.

originally posted by: Allaroundyou
a reply to: Grambler
I will agree that his words if real are not racist. They are a general view of the state that they are in.

Yes exactly.

Yet the hysteria about how this proves his racism continues unabated. And by the very people that mocked conservatives with childish sexual
insults.

The hypocrisy is astounding.

Trump says what most of us are thinking. THAT is what scares TPTB... rampant common sense cannot be tolerated by the aristocracy.

It badly scares and puts the weak minded sjw in a state of unease as well....they thought all this conflict would just go away...wait till they find
out it is all from themselves and some amazingly sad individuals who have played them...with minimal effort too.

he didn't say it you defend him. he did say it you will defend him. you will defend him to the death. have you heard of jack o'donnel? he must be
lying too.

well i can't prove he said it, i wasn't there but i would not be shocked if it is proven that he did indeed say it and i will not be shocked when you
justify his words and say there is nothing wrong with what he said, he is just telling it like it is like a true alpha male patriot just the type of
leader this country needs #mericuh #knuckledraggers #mouthbreathers #morenorwegians

maddow and cooper were nasty with it snickering and making jokes invoking the crude meaning shame on them, but they are not presidential hopefuls nor
politicians. trump on the other hand that guy has a dirtier mouth than a truck driving sailor yes or no? never though of myself as much of an obama
fan hated a lot of the things he did, liked some of the things he attempted. you on the other hand and many other members on here who happen to be
trump supporters defend and or deflect every bone headed move trump makes.

I guess its out of habit. Or instinct. I always have an instinct to come to another human's defense when I see that they are unfairly bullied. He is
one of the most openly hated people, openly hated and lied about by highly visible, popular institutions with many followers. So, after 99 nonsensical
accusations and horrendous insults and open calls for assassination, Yeah I think I can give him a pass, and even defend him, for the one tiny thing
like this that could end up being true. If it was me, I wouldn't be such a saint. Trump is showing a lot of restraint.

So it was OK to express that kind of sentiment about folks in the TEA Party?

Wait.

Of course it was because they were all too stupid to get it. Amirite?

What you and others don't seem to be understanding is that the term "teabagger" was a term the TP and it's people created and embraced themselves. The
media, Obama and a whole lot of other people simply mocked them for it, as it states in the OP's title.

This current situation is not even close to being comparable.

Like I said, it is a textbook false equivalence and a hilarious one at that. Not to mention that is is nothing more than continuing the trend of
"whataboutism" that has become a popular trend recently of taking the lazy approach to debate.

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